Chapter 1297: Pushing the camel's mouth

It was late at night, and Liang Yongneng was still in the military tent, frowning and planning military aircraft.

Liang Yimi had already arrived at Xingqing Mansion and told him that the Queen Mother was angry and told him not to go back in a hurry.

After learning that Liu Changzuo was far away from the middle road and raided Yanzhou, Liang Yongneng was keenly aware that the opportunity had come.

Although Liu Changzuo's 50,000-strong Jingyuan army won great victories all the way, the battles were tough and the losses were already considerable.

In addition to the 3,000 soldiers who died in the battle, there were also more than 6,000 wounded who were unable to continue participating in military operations.

Liu Changzuo left them in Qinggang Gorge along with 10,000 horses, and Pule City served as a defensive force. The force to attack Yanzhou was only 30,000!

After Zhong'e's Yanyan army captured Xiazhou, the troops and horses left by the Xia people in Hongzhou and Longzhou had actually lost their strategic value, and were even in danger of having their retreat route stolen.

Liang Yongneng originally wanted them to retreat to Youzhou, but Liu Changzuo's rash advance gave the retreat of these two groups some value.

So Liang Yongneng reported the plan to Xingqing Mansion, hoping that Liang Yi would lead troops to support him, and launched an offensive. The three-pronged army of 80,000 people surrounded Liu Changzuo at the camel mouth at the source of Guidechuan.

Lutuokou is also one of the famous ancient battlefields in Song and Xia Dynasties.

At the beginning of the Dao period, Li Jiqian sent General Zhang Pu to offer camels and fine horses.

Taizong ordered the guards to cross the pass, overtake them, lure the strong, and seize the tree in the back garden. He ordered Pu and others to watch, and also ordered the soldiers to draw two stone bows.

At that time, Taizong asked Zhang Pu with a smile: "Do the Qiang people dare to fight against us?"

Zhang Pu replied: "The Qiang tribe's bows are weak and their arrows are short, but when they see this grown man, they are already running away. How dare they be hostile?"

As a result, as soon as the new year turned, the Song army was robbed by Li Jiqian of the entire 400,000 stones of grain and grass shipped to Lingzhou.

Taizong was furious and divided the generals into five groups to attack.

As a result, Li Jilong and Ding Han missed their deadline and returned without success; Zhang Shouen encountered the enemy and escaped without fighting; Wang Chao and Fan Ting encountered the Xia people in Wubaichi, and fought dozens of large and small battles, which was unfavorable.

Li Jiqian took the opportunity to order his general Shi Bu to garrison the camel-drawing port in an attempt to block the Song army's return. Thanks to Li Jilong's sending Tian Min and others to attack them, Wang Chao and Fan Ting escaped with their lives.

The Song Dynasty's first five-pronged expedition to Xia ended in an anticlimactic manner.

That battle allowed Li Jiqian to thoroughly see the nature of the Song Dynasty, which was strong on the outside and cadre on the inside, and gained the capital to found the country.

But decades later, Liang Yongneng discovered that the Song people had become so powerful that it was difficult to attack them.

Liu Changzuo did not panic after being surrounded. He cooperated with the car formation and cavalry, fought and walked, and finally arrived at Shuangyan, a ruins at Lutuokou.

At first, Liang Yongneng thought this was just a replica of Ren Fuzhong's strategy of setting up a mountain to defend himself against the enemy. However, Liu Changzuo actually used a van to surround the two buildings into an indestructible fortress like an iron hedgehog!

Liang Yongneng knew that with the current military strength of Xixia, if he wanted to eat this Song army, he would pay a heavy price, but he did not expect that the price would be so heavy!

The wagons of the Song Army were connected in a series, with several perforations on the side of each wagon. The Song soldiers also brought many sacks with them. After filling the wagons with sand and soil, they were placed on the wagons, and the roofs were propped up to form the connected wagons.

It became a solid wall.

Then that damn powerful crossbow fired arrows from behind, seemingly endless arrows!

There are also several elm cannons in the workshop, which can fire iron sand and gravel, with amazing lethality!

There were skilled craftsmen in the Song army who were proficient in city defense. In less than half a day, some high places on the ruins of Shuangyan were built into archery towers with sandbags and cart boards. The Song army fired arrows from above, intertwining with the crossbow arrows on the carriages.

, forming an invisible life harvesting line.

Moreover, the Song people obviously had a very efficient lookout system, message transmission system and command system. With a total of 80,000 troops, they were unable to form a local combat advantage!

Once the troops are concentrated to attack one point, they will be greeted by thunder and elm cannons. If they are dispersed, they will be delivering food to the crossbow troops in the carriage.

Liang Yongneng did not carry siege equipment in this attack. His battle plan was to use the rangers to continuously suppress the Song army's formation, causing chaos and collapse, and then pursue and annihilate them.

I had even forgotten that there were two abandoned castles here. How did the Song people know about it?!

Moreover, they have rules and regulations that are more suitable for war!

In addition to constant attacks, Liang Yongneng had no good strategy at the moment.

It's not like I haven't tried a night battle before, but my defeat was even worse.

According to the sergeant who escaped, there was a bigger trap behind the Song Dynasty's van. Once you break into it, the evil spirits will wrap around your trousers and waist and prevent you from moving. Then the Song Dynasty will throw a kind of weapon that can burn for a long time.

The thing, with the help of firelight, mercilessly shot the robes caught by the devil into sieves.

That night, five thousand elite soldiers marched into the city with loud shouts that shook the sky. Then their voices became smaller and smaller, and finally became silent.

The next morning, the Song people moved the village wall arrogantly, and several vans kept coming in and out under the cover of crane-shin crossbows. They took out the bodies of the Xia people who died in the car formation last night and abandoned them between the two armies.

On the battlefield, he then swaggered back and put the city back together again.

This is a naked demonstration!

Since the war between Song and Xia, Liang Yongneng suffered consecutive defeats, and the depression in his heart had long been accumulated to the edge of explosion. Finally, he issued an order. Tens of thousands of people formed a team and took turns to attack the relatively weak junction of the vehicle array and the ruins to the west of Shuangxi.

He must make the people of Song Dynasty pay an outrageous price!

On this day, both the Song and Xia armies fought hard. The wall changed hands several times, but every time the Xia people took it, Liu Changzuo and Yao Lin would personally lead the team and take it back more arrogantly.

Liu Changzuo's 15-pound machete and Yao Lin's two concave four-edged steel maces, each weighing 9 pounds, have become an indelible shadow in Xia people's minds.

Wearing three layers of heavy armor, a cotton jacket on the inside, chain armor on the outside, and a set of stamped steel armor on the outside, plus gloves with iron sheets covering the back of the hands, a full-coverage helmet with steel mesh on the eyes, two canned men

There is no need to worry about one's own safety at all. Even when surrounded by heavy soldiers, you can often create an open space around you!

Will be a soldier of courage.

The bloody bravery, strength and murderousness of this Song army are not at all like the legendary weak Song army. Even the Iron Kites of Xixia and the Tielin Army of the Liao people will probably be inferior to them in front of them!

That day, Liang Yongneng paid a heavy price for his loss of sanity. Under the car formation to the west of Shuangyan, the Xia people left nearly ten thousand corpses, almost piling up a slope that was level with the car formation!

However, Shuangyan has still not been breached!

On the third day, Liang Yongneng's last hope was shattered.

The Song army is not short of water!

This was originally the source of the Guidechuan River. It was once a place where tens of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered. Liang Yongneng estimated that the Song Army started digging wells on the first day they arrived here!

Indeed, if only Liang Yongneng knew that the science and engineering team accompanying the army only took half a day to clear out five wells in Shuangyan, and also took spare wheels, axles, iron barrels, and self-pressure backstop leather pads to imitate the brine wells in central Sichuan

After building a water-drawing cart with enough water for 30,000 horses and horses in two villages, I am afraid that a mouthful of old blood will spurt out.

Moreover, Song Jun's rations were all ready-to-eat - canned food, compressed biscuits, fried noodles, dried fish, bacon, tea powder... This time, Liu Changzuo carried enough for three months!

It’s clean and hygienic, no processing required, even if there’s no fire!

Throwing the wooden pen onto the rough military map, Liang Yongneng put his fist on his temple and rubbed it, trying to drive away the severe pain in his head.

The army is ruthless, constantly defeated, and constantly exhausted.

The man did not understand how to carry his horse without leaving the saddle. He went back and forth to support the front line for more than a month, covering a total of 1,500 miles. He also suffered wind and cold arrow injuries, and even his iron-strength muscles could not withstand it.

The tent was opened, bringing in a gust of cold wind, which made Liang Yongneng's expression clear.

When he raised his head, Weiming Tongjun came in carrying a wooden tray.

Liang Yongneng shook his stiff neck: "Tongjun, why is it you?"

Weiming's commander put the wooden plate down and said, "I'll give the commander some gold sore medicine."

Liang Yongneng smiled bitterly and said: "How can I trouble you?"

Weiming Tongjun helped Liang Yongneng carefully take off his leather robe, revealing the red battle coat ripped from the dead Song soldiers inside.

To this day, the Xia people have also harvested a lot of equipment from the Song army. Battle knives, leather boots, cotton-padded jackets, helmets, belts, water bottles and even gloves and socks have all become the first good things to be "enjoyed" by senior officers of the Xia Kingdom.

Untying the gauze on Liang Yongneng's shoulder, Wei Mingtongjun picked up a small porcelain vase with the word "Jin Chuang" written in dark blue on a wooden tray, and showed Liang Yongneng the six small characters "April in the third year of Yuanfeng" on the bottom of the bottle.

: "I don't know if the things from last year are still effective..."

Liang Yongneng shook his head: "It's good if you can use it. How can you be picky at this time of year?"
Chapter completed!